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HANSARDDraft Agricultural Products, Food and Drink (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020
Draft Food (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020It is a pleasure to be back in a Committee under your chairmanship, Mr Davies. I thank the Minister for her introduction. She explained very well the importance of geographical…25 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twenty First sitting)On this occasion, I am afraid I will have to disappoint. The Minister has wheeled out a veritable forest of aspirational opportunities, but we think that the Bill needs to be…24 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twenty First sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. After the drama and passion of the trees debate, I am happy to inform you, Mr Gray, that the next few new clauses are a touch…24 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twenty First sitting)I appreciate the Minister’s great enthusiasm for trees. Will she join me in supporting and celebrating tree charter day, which is this Saturday, and congratulate the young…24 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twenty First sitting)As ever, my hon. Friend is developing an interesting argument. I suspect that in some ways it goes back to where our regulatory frameworks first emerged. He and I are probably of…24 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twentieth sitting)Frankly, I do not think that the Government are one step ahead, given that our proposal was tabled long in advance and is far more extensive and far reaching. I heard what the…24 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twentieth sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. To some extent, this is part 2 of a discussion that we had a little earlier. The new clause was tabled by my hon. Friends the…24 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twentieth sitting)The point I am making is that all Governments will face a dilemma and a pressure when it comes to economic imperatives and environmental protection. We have seen as much in the…24 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twentieth sitting)It was widely reported and not denied.24 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twenty First sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. After the Government’s majority was slashed at the last vote, I am hugely excited. If only there were a Liberal Democrat bar…24 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twentieth sitting)The Minister might well wish it had not been said, and I wish it had not been said, but it was.24 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twentieth sitting)I do not think the Minister will be surprised to hear that I am not convinced and will not be withdrawing the amendment. The reason we are not convinced is that there is nothing…24 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twentieth sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.24 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twenty First sitting)On this occasion, I am happy to oblige, not least because I suspect we will want to go away and look very carefully at the Minister’s words. I think there is quite an important…24 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twenty First sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. New clause 22 takes us back almost to the beginning of our deliberations and to environmental principles. The December 2018…24 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twenty First sitting)The Minister is right; we are not going to press the motion, but I would say that I think we are repeating some of the arguments we had on earlier clauses. We are somewhat…24 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Winter PlanThe Prime Minister failed to answer the question from the Leader of the Opposition about the extent to which local areas would be consulted on what tier they would be returned to,…23 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Eighteenth sitting)No one on the Opposition Benches questions the Minister’s commitment to this, but why was it introduced at a late stage? If she can explain that, it would go some way to assuaging…19 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I will not keep intervening, but my concern is about the section on nature in the 10-point plan that the Prime Minister launched yesterday. There is no mention of net biodiversity…19 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I am grateful, Sir George, and I am grateful to my constituency neighbour, the hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire. As the chair of the all-party group on data analytics, I, too,…19 Nov 2020